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Donegal captain Michael Murphy says he wonders at times if he would have made it as an AFL player.

The 2012 All-Ireland winning skipper had the opportunity ‘to go to Brisbane’ as a teenager but firmly knocked it back.

Murphy told ex-Donegal colleague Brendan Devenney on Highland Radio that he has vivid memories of the day he was offered the chance to sign AFL terms.

He said: “I remember them coming, they came to the back door of the house at the time. For any young fella of that age, 16, 17, it was so exciting. You heard this professional team coming potentially wanting to offer you a contract to go to the team and to go to Brisbane at the time.

“I met them a couple of times. The offer or whatever..it was brilliant at the time, I was really excited. I think I was more excited about just having been afforded the actual offer moreso.

“Then when the real hard question came, when I sat down with my Mum and Dad, ‘Well, are you ready then? Are you going?’ All of a sudden I was like, ‘Okay, I need to answer this’ and it was just a complete no, not a hope.

“At that stage, I was beginning to come on to the senior team, between minors and U-21s. I was beginning to get into the Glenswilly senior team.

“I was beginning to live out a dream. I just wasn’t willing to give up that and to want to do it.

“The challenge, in hindsight looking back, every now and then I would have loved to have given it a go just to see if I could adapt moreso from the challenge point of view, just to see if I could prove them wrong.

“I’d have been motivated by that to prove somebody wrong that I could do it. But would I have really enjoyed the journey? It’s something I’ve alluded to a few times here, I don’t know... well, I wouldn’t have enjoyed it anywhere as much as those years with Donegal.”